Stirrup.



PATENTED Nov. 17, 1903. A? KLIETSQH.

STIRRUP APPLICATION I'I'LED mac. 13, 1902.

1m MODEL.

Patented November 17, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLF KLIETsoH, OF eoRLITz, GERMANY.

STIRRUP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,360, dated November 17, 1903. Application filed December 13, 1902. Serial No. 135,146. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be. it known that I, ADOLF KLIETSCH, a

subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing.

v out the loop on the strap having to be opened and sewed up again or the strap being unbuckled andbuckled again and which will instantly and automatically become detached from the strap upon the rider being thrown and dragged by the stirrup.

My invention is illustrated by the accompanying sheet of drawings, on which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a stirrup according to my invention, the hooks being in the position when holding the strap. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the hooksv being turned aside; and Fig. 3 is a front View of the Stirrup.

The lower loop end of strap a is cut away in Figs. 1 and 2, so as to better expose the essential parts of the invention.

In the upper bridge part b of the stirrup proper, e, are swiveled two rectangularly-bent fingers or hooks (1, so that their upper horizontal parts f, adapted to take into a correupper and lower face, respectively, of the.

bridge part b.

It is evident that upon the rider being thrown and his foot twisting the stirrup out.

of its ordinary perpendicular position the bent fingers readily will turn aside, opening outwardly and slipping out of the strap-loop, and thereby allowing the strap to become detached, the stirrup being retained on the foot.

'What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A stirrup, comprising an ordinary closed loop having the usual horizontal bridge, in combination with two rectangular arms, one swiveled vertically in the bridge near each end, the free portions of said arms being horizontal and adapted to lie in line with each other parallel with the bridge to receive the loop of the stirrup-strap or to be swung laterally bythe twist of the strap, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADOLF KLIETSCH.

Witnesses:

' GLEMINTZ H. SOHILLING,

OTTO Roman. 

